Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: Add support for SPD5118 compliant temperature sensors

[René Rebe]

Hi,

> On May 31, 2024, at 15:14, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi René,
> 
> On 5/31/24 03:01, René Rebe wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On May 31, 2024, at 11:31, Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>>>> Wolfgang seems to think it's important:
>>> 
>>> Wolfram, please.
>>> 
>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/tdia472d4pow2osabef24y2ujkkquplfajxmmtk5pnxllsdxsz@wxzynz7llasr/
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ok, but that doesn't explain the reason. Wolfram, Paul, why do you
>>>> think this is needed ? Note that I am not opposed to adding spd
>>>> eeprom support, but I'd like to know why I am doing it before
>>>> I spend time on it.
>>> 
>>> A working eeprom driver is needed to get 'decode-dimms' from the
>>> i2c-tools package working. Jean reported that EEPROM access for DDR5 is
>>> different from DDR4, so it needs a separate driver. And
>>> i2c_register_spd() then needs to be updated to use the new driver for
>>> DDR5.
>> Well my original downstream driver already had eeprom access:
>> https://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/kernel/linux/spd-5118.patch
> 
> Yes, but you didn't send it upstream, so I took it, fixed a couple of bugs,

And I appreciate that!

> dropped eeprom support since that is secondary for my use case as well as the

I only said the original code had this implemented if someone wants to re-add it
to save them some time not having to re-write it from scratch ;-)

> out-of-tree parity code, and submitted it. I'd be more than happy to let you
> take over if you like.

I’m mostly out of time, so I appreciate you starting the upstream process.

Thank you so much,
	René

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